Sean Connery lashes out at greedy bosses in lost footage from 1967

HE might have hit the Hollywood A-list as James Bond but unseen footage reveals how Sean Connery never lost sight of his working-class roots.

HE might have hit the Hollywood A-list as James Bond but unseen footage reveals how Sean Connery never lost sight of his working-class roots.

New film of the actor from 1967 shows him talking about his distrust of management after making STV documentary The Bowler And The Bunnet in the same year.

The programme, which he starred in and directed, looked at the slow decline of Scotland’s most prominent heavy industry, shipbuilding, and focused on Fairfield shipyard in Govan, Glasgow.

Making the documentary had an impact on the former milkman, who had by then become one of the most famous stars in the world.

Speaking on programme Now And Then, Sean said: “It reawakened all sorts of dislikes and likes that have obviously been pretty dormant in me, particularly against management.

“My experience in this country, since I left school at 13, is that I have never found a particularly sympathetic or a really good functioning management. They are, as a rule, too greedy.”

The previously unseen film features on BBC show Watching Ourselves – 60 Years Of Television In Scotland, which is looking at documentaries on Scottish life.

It also features footage of other Hollywood stars including David Niven and Deborah Kerr in conversation in the south of France. The actress, who starred in The King And I and From Here To Eternity, reveals she didn’t remember much about her Helensburgh birthplace but she did recall losing a sixpence and being upset for a week.

She said she “started off as a good Scot screaming about losing money”.

Jimmy Reid features in The Fight For Clydeside while 1976 film Lilybank – The Fourth World saw the late activist Kay Carmichael going undercover in the east end of Glasgow to live in one of the most deprived areas of the country.

She told all to Magnus Magnusson, revealing that her “eyes would literally be hurting with the pain of not having anything beautiful to look at”.

She also revealed how children as young as three were marked with the “stigmata of deprivation”.

The new programme, hosted by Greg Hemphill, includes clips from The Scheme and films such as Culloden and The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil.

Also featured is the iconic and uplifting 1988 documentary The Visit: The Boy David, about Peruvian kid David Lopez whose face, ravaged as a baby by a flesh-eating disease, was rebuilt by Scots surgeon Ian Jackson, who later adopted him.

?Watching Ourselves – 60 Years Of Television In Scotland: Other Lives is on BBC1 on Wednesday at 7.30pm.